Portrait of a lady, half-length, in a fur-lined black costume and a 'molensteenkraag' and white headdress

Details

Circle of Pieter Pietersz. (Antwerp 1540-1603 Amsterdam)
Portrait of a lady, half-length, in a fur-lined black costume and a 'molensteenkraag' and white headdress
oil on panel
77.6 x 58.6 cm.

Provenance

H.W. Sabin, Hove; Christie's, London, 10 July 1939, lot 128, as W. Valckert (£ 10.10.0 to Moore).

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Lot Essay

The composition of this lot is very similar to that of Pieter Pietersz.'s portrait of Dirckje Tijmansdr. van der Graft in a private collection, Doorn. The modelling of the face, however, is softer and more subtle in the present portrait and recalls that of the anonymous sitter, on panel, formerly attributed to Cornelis Ketel by C. Hofstede de Groot in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen.

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